The Boeing Company announced yesterday that Israel has agreed to upgrade 12 of its approximately 40 AH-64A Apache attack helicopters to the new AH-64D Longbow configuration.
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The Boeing Company announced yesterday that Israel has agreed to upgrade 12 of its approximately 40 AH-64A Apache attack helicopters to the new AH-64D Longbow configuration.
A prominent Senate Democrat yesterday broke ranks with some of his colleagues by urging that the White House not delay the National Missile Defense deployment readiness review until after next November's presidential elections.
The Navy has awarded a contract worth up to $325 million to a Boeing-led industry team to support the first phase of the service's fiscal year 2000 Navy Training Systems Contract, the company announced yesterday.
President Bill Clinton has nominated Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Lester Lyles to become commander-in-chief of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, the Pentagon announced today.
The Pentagon yesterday announced possible foreign military sales to Israel, the Netherlands and Finland totaling $645 million.
Computer Sciences Corporation has formed a 64-member alliance to go after the multibillion-dollar Navy/Marine Corps Intranet contract, the company announced today.
The Air Force yesterday awarded a range services contract potentially worth $425 million over six years to a joint venture of Computer Sciences Corporation and Raytheon, according to a CSC announcement.
The Army's cash-strapped Sense and Destroy Armor program moved one step closer to production and eventual fielding late last month during two days of intensive tests at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the system's manufacturer announced yesterday.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Raytheon an $83 million contract to support the government's Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the company announced in a statement yesterday.
Lockheed Martin signed a contract today with the U.S. Army to provide 20 portable air defense radars for the Taiwanese Army, according to a company announcement.
House lawmakers today passed the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act by a 341-70 vote, making it virtually impregnable to a presidential veto if the Senate follows the House's lead.
Newport News Shipbuilding has selected Lockheed Martin as its warfare systems integrator for the as-yet unnamed CVN-77, the Navy's newest nuclear aircraft carrier, the company announced yesterday in a statement.
Northrop Grumman has won a $128 million firm-fixed-price, low-rate initial production contract from Lockheed Martin to build 609 Brilliant Anti-Armor submunitions, the contractor announced yesterday.
The nation's second-largest defense contractor expects the bulk of its earnings for calendar year 2000 to take place later on this year.
The Air Force yesterday launched the 11th of 14 upgraded Lockheed Martin-built communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, the company announced.
Defense Secretary William Cohen yesterday announced the stationing plan for 17 additional Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams using National Guard personnel.
A prototype vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial vehicle flew for the first time yesterday, Northrop Grumman announced.
The Air Force has awarded a $143.7 million contract to TRW to begin replacing the guidance systems on the service's most advanced land-based intercontinental ballistic missile fleet, TRW announced yesterday.
Defense Secretary William Cohen has recommended the president nominate Army Under Secretary Bernard Rostker to replace outgoing Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Rudy de Leon, the Pentagon announced today.
General Dynamics, one of the Pentagon's major submarine builders, yesterday announced that John Welch, chief of its Electric Boat business unit, had been promoted to senior vice president and head of the Marine Systems Group.